Research Article
Exploring Children's Requirements for Game-Based Learning Environments
Table 1
Issues discovered in the projects.
| Category | Issue | Source |
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UI/Navigation | Using familiar UI conventions
without risking game-likeness | UI drawings | Controls clearly visible at all
times | UI drawings | | Existing sites | Game status and standings clearly
visible at all times | UI drawings |
| UI/Appearance | Content-rich layouts, little empty
space | Existing sites | Realistic appearance, for example,
photographs | Existing sites |
| Content/Theme | Themes related to real life | Existing sites | Great variety in themes | Existing sites
| | | Idea maps |
| Content/Functionality | Much freedom of choice in
functionality to allow exploration | UI drawings
| | Idea maps | | Existing sites | Possibility to create something | Idea maps | A main character (a game character
or a guiding “mascot”) | Existing sites |
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